TECHNATION - Key Persons
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- Partner, Digital Health Advisory, KPMG Canada
Aaron is a Partner in KPMG's Digital Health practice. He has almost 20 years of experience as a clinician, hospital manager and consultant. His experience ranges from Provincial levels through front lines of care. Aaron has led provincial projects related to Analytics, wait-time management, peri-operative practice, critical care, and population health initiatives. Aaron has also worked with clients on information management and data analytics projects ranging from IM/IT planning for large academic hospitals and regions.
Aaron holds an appointment at the University of Toronto in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (iHPME) with roles in Health Policy and Health Informatics. He is a member of the McMaster eHealth Program Advisory Committee and is also a board member for the Ontario Community Support Association and TECHNATION
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- Director of Consulting Services at CGI
Ben Goldberg is a Director of Consulting Services at CGI, based out of Toronto, Ontario and oversees the healthcare portfolio for the province. Ben has lengthy experience in transformative engagements with the public sector, and a proven understanding of the structures, processes, stakeholder groups and affected populations in Ontario and nationwide via a career spanning over 20 years. He has actively participated in leading transformation projects, programs and solutions in conjunction with numerous ministries and agencies of the government, both internally and as one of its delivery partners.
In his role with CGI, Ben oversees several multi-million dollar engagements ensuring expert relationship management and thorough client delivery are in place. Simultaneously, Ben drives business development via lead engagement applying sound sales processes and strategies to interact with key decision makers, creating, uncovering and qualifying opportunities and ultimately driving them to close. Ben leads a team of skilled IT professionals, successfully developing and coaching them to grow in their careers. He has demonstrated success at collaborating, building consensus and driving multiple projects to completion within cross-functional areas of the company and including external partners.
Outside of work and school, Ben enjoys rock climbing, cycling, and formula 1. He and his wife are also fully dedicated to their three phenomenal daughters.
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- Partner
- Partner, Health and Public Sector, EY Canada
Catherine Hunter is a Partner in EY's Health and Public Sector practice and leads EY's Technology Transformation team in Canada. She has worked with a diversity of Canadian health and public sector clients over a 25 year career in the industry, bringing strong experience in national, provincial and local transformation initiatives. She has led many strategic and technology-focused engagements working alongside senior leadership, clinicians, Board members and government officials throughout the system.
Recently, Catherine has been working with clients at national, provincial and regional levels to bring new models of technology-enabled solutions to the health sector, recognizing the positive impacts in consumer experience, quality of service, access to services and operational efficiency that can be gained. She has worked extensively as a business and technology advisor in digital health, with both clinical and business focused solutions.
In addition to her consulting experience, Catherine held the role of Group Director, Change, Knowledge and Evaluation Services while at Canada Health Infoway. In that role she worked successfully with provinces and regions across Canada to shape change management strategies to ensure adoption of digital health solutions, define evaluation strategies to measure their benefits, and ensure effective knowledge transfer to enable more rapid and successful implementations.
In addition to her role on the Health Board of TECHNATION, Catherine currently sits on the Board of Kensington Health in Toronto. She is a longstanding member of Digital Health Canada, with an MBA (Health Services Mgmt) from McMaster University and a BScH from Queen's University.
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- Chief Commercial Officer / Chef Des Affaires Commerciales, LGI Healthcare Solutions ( Logibec )
Franco Sicilia has 25 years of experience working with large high-tech organizations, namely in voice recognition, biometrics, healthcare IT and connected care. He has held leadership roles in product management, sales, go-to-market strategies, and business unit management, namely at TELUS Health.
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- CEO / Tectonic Advisory Services Inc. Director
- Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Tectonic Advisory Services Inc
Glenn Lanteigne is the Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Tectonic Advisory Services Inc. In this role, Glenn brings 25 years of experience as a strategic advisor, health system technology and Health IT leader, and leads all advisory services for the public and private sector clients of Tectonic.
Glenn has provided leadership, business development and management across Health IT. He is known for providing leadership to clinical and business leaders, and corporate clients, CEOs and Boards, with a proven track record of success in raising capital, business development and creation of innovative healthcare solutions.
Glenn has received several awards for his leadership in the healthcare sector, and recognized as one of the top healthcare IT leaders in North America.
Prior to joining Tectonic, Glenn provided leadership to organizations including the Government of Ontario, the Government of Canada, LifeLabs, TELUS, Allscripts, and GE.
Glenn has served 10 years in the Canadian forces as a tank commander.
Glenn holds a BA (Hons) in Economics & Politics from Royal Military College of Canada and an MBA from the University of Ottawa and is a Six Sigma Black Belt.
Currently, Glenn serves on the Board of Directors various organizations including COACH, Canada's Health Informatics Association and is an instructor at the National Institutes for Health Informatics.
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- Managing Director - Canada Health Industry Leader, Accenture
Jimmy has worked extensively in the health care and life sciences sectors - with hospitals, government, agencies, primary/seniors/rural care, clinical research organizations and pharmaceutical companies. He has led and advised in the domains of corporate strategy, clinical and health system planning, and new models of delivery. He is empowered to collaborate with leaders focused on improvement and transformation, through business and clinical process innovation, and enabled and powered by analytics, AI, and technology.
Jimmy co-founded and now serves as Vice Chair of Red Maple Trials Inc., an Ottawa-based clinical research organization (CRO). They work with global biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions and research centres of excellence to help support phases I through IV research programs in allergy, asthma, rare disease and immunology.
Additionally, he is an Adjunct Professor and member of faculty in the Health Industry Management Program at York University's Schulich School of Business. He teaches graduate students in the areas of new business models and convergence approaches in health care, life sciences and consumer health.
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- President
- President of Novari Health Inc
- President, Novari Health
John Sinclair is the President of Novari Health Inc. (Canada) and Novari Health Pty Ltd (Australia). An eHealth professional, he is a subject matter expert on access to care, patient flow, wait times, eReferral, central intake & eConsult technologies and solutions for patients queuing for healthcare services (surgical, mental health, addictions, diabetes, etc.). John has been the executive lead on dozens of access to care IT solution projects at the individual hospital through to large regional implementations at the LHIN / health authority level. He has been a speaker at healthcare conferences across Canada and internationally and is a university guest lecturer.
John's background is in business development, solution sales, marketing, product management, channel sales, product knowledge training, public speaking, strategic partnerships, software product road maps and team building. His work experience includes senior leadership positions with small, medium and large organizations in Canada, the United States and Europe. John sits on a mix of both public and private boards.
John is a Certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems or CPHIMS-CA.
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- Director, Ontario Public Sector & Health, Infosys Public Services
Kevin McConomy has spent over 35 years working in the areas of public sector strategy, policy, technology operations and client relationship management. His fields of sector expertise include health, transportation, justice and IT shared services. Kevin's professional career in information technology includes senior level roles in program management, service delivery, consulting, service deployment & change management. He is pleased to have served time both as a public servant and private sector consultant allowing him to best understand the inner workings of a provincial government while staying ahead of the innovative trends driving the commercial IT sector. Kevin is currently the Director, Ontario Public Sector for Infosys Public Services.
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- Enterprise Sales, Healthcare / Amazon Web Services Director
- Enterprise Sales, Healthcare, Amazon Web Services
- Healthcare Account Executive
Kyle is a healthcare Account Executive with proven a background and experience leading teams to create innovative solutions and services to solve customer challenges. His sales background is coupled with extensive experience in solutions selling and business development by utilizing technical, marketing and operations teams. He has a background which includes 19 years devoted to the Canadian public sector in Canada including healthcare, education, federal, provincial and local governments. He has also developed extension relationships with healthcare strategist and senior leadership in the United States from his experience at Dell and VMware.
Kyle is responsible for Amazon Web Service's (AWS) relationships within the Ontario Healthcare market. In addition to his direct role Kyle also serves as a healthcare lead within AWS Canada. AWS aims to help Canadian healthcare customers employ cloud services to reduce cost, drive efficiencies and increase innovation across the country. In his role, Kyle is responsible for the awareness, education and adoption of AWS by healthcare customers in Ontario and across Canada. He is also an active participant with Digital Health Canada (formerly COACH - Canada's Health Informatics Association) as well as continued involvement with CHIEF (Canadian Health Informatics Executive Forum).
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- Sales Leader
- Pure Storage in 2021 As a Regional Sales Director for Enterprise
- Sales Leader, Pure Storage
Laura Drummond joined Pure Storage in 2021 as a regional Sales Director for Enterprise and Canadian Healthcare. Laura is a passionate sales leader who has a track record for building top performing teams. Laura has 15+ years of experience in the technology industry and brings a customer first approach, creativity and out of the box thinking to all that she does.
Laura is responsible for developing and building the Pure Storage Canadian healthcare business strategy, helping customers accelerate digital transformation. Pure Storage is committed to helping healthcare organizations protect and manage the increasing volume and complexity of clinical, financial and operational data in a sustainable and cost-effective way.
Laura has a Bachelor of Education from the University of Victoria. She resides in the small rural hamlet of Enniskillen, Ontario. Together with her husband and six-year-old son free time is spent snowboarding, exploring the outdoors and spending time at the baseball diamond.
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- Advisor
- Founder
- Partner / Bennett Jones LLP / Director
- Partner, Bennett Jones LLP
With 24 years' experience in the U.S. and Canada in leading edge technology transactions, Matthew Flynn is a trusted advisor to technology customers and providers. Matt helps clients with structuring, drafting and negotiating successful commercial relationships, enabling speed to well-balanced deals that yield long-term value.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Healthcare Solutions Lead - Canada
Michael Burgoyne Healthcare Solutions Lead - Canada, Ricoh Digital Services (Canada) Mike is the national Healthcare Lead for Ricoh Digital Services (Canada), and is in his 12 th year providing value to US and Canadian providers to eliminate paper-based choke points, reduce risk associated with paper, and securely complete the electronic patient record. With a career spanning 23 years in the document management industry, Mike's background encompasses a range of expertise including variable data printing and advanced capture. His team leverages process analytics to identify and improve hospital challenges around unstructured data, hybrid medical record strategies, and administrative paper challenges. In addition, he guides Ricoh's delivery of relevant Print and eFax Infrastructure, Safe Workplace, and Work from Home strategies leveraging Digital Transformation solutions and healthcare-standards based integration. Mike is bilingual, holds the Ontario Hospital Association's LEAN Healthcare Yellow Belt certification, and is a certified Enterprise Content Manager (Specialist) with a Bachelor's degree in Commerce. He is a member of HIMSS, Digital Health Canada, and past President of Ontario Canada's Xplor Association, the de facto leading transactional electronic document association. Raised in the Maritimes, Mike now resides in London, Ontario with his wife and son where he enjoys coaching, hockey, and golf.
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- Regional Sales Director, Canada, MEDITECH
Nick Palmieri is responsible for all of MEDITECH's business development efforts in Canada. Nick joined MEDITECH in 2006 and was responsible for growing the company's customer footprint in Western Canada. After notable success Nick was promoted to Regional Sales Manager for Western Canada in 2012, and more recently Sales Director for all of Canada. Through Nick's leadership, MEDITECH has amassed a 47% Canadian hospital market share. In his role, Nick also has responsibility for MEDITECH's Canadian business strategy, helping to further contribute to the company's mission of enabling digital transformation across the country. Nick is also a licensed pilot.
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- Industry Lead - Canadian Healthcare / Microsoft
- Industry Lead - Canadian Healthcare, Microsoft Canada
Peter Jones joined Microsoft Canada in October 1999. He brings (25+) years experience in the information technology industry with an excellent track record in strategic alliances and experience in working with key solution integrators. He has a proven track record in sales and business management experience from his years at companies like - Compaq, Digital Equipment, Xerox, Computerland and Microsoft. For the past 6 years Peter has held the position of Industry Lead for Healthcare at Microsoft Canada. He is involved in different Health Informatics groups like COACH, CHIEF, ITAC health and various industry events.
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- Chief Technologist for the Canadian Public Sector / IBM / Director
- Chief Technologist for the Canadian Public Sector, IBM
- IBM 's Chief Technologist for the Canadian Public Sector
Rob is IBM's Chief Technologist for the Canadian Public Sector, bringing more than three decades of healthcare experience with a focus on delivering successful client enterprise-level solutions. He has worked with numerous government and healthcare organizations, driving transformational change while delivering innovative solutions. As a technical and thought leader, Rob supports public sector organizations across Canada embarking on large-scale transformational initiatives.
Throughout his career, Rob has successfully run complex projects involving diverse stakeholders and has extensive experience in managing system integration projects across various healthcare sectors. Recognized as a creative thinker with strong strategic and operational planning skills, Rob has built new delivery models, fostered partnerships, and introduced new technologies and processes to advance clinical and administrative services in the industry.
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- Director, Client Development, Oracle Health
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- National Strategic Transformation Advisor, Canada / VMware
- National Strategic Transformation Advisor, Canada for VMware
- National Strategic Transformation Advisor, Canada, VMware Canada ULC
Sara Jost is the National Strategic Transformation Advisor, Canada for VMware. Jost works with strategic accounts to provide a holistic approach to transformation, modernization, and innovation. Jost previously led Red Hat Canada's healthcare strategy, with responsibility for developing partnerships and management of the strategic planning. Previous roles include Global Healthcare Industry Lead for BlackBerry, setting up and running mobile healthcare applications for the start-up Healthanywhere, high risk Labour and Delivery nurse for Women's College Hospital, and researcher in stroke and migraine for Queen's University. Jost brings a diverse and holistic approach to enterprise IT. She lives in Nova Scotia with her husband and three sons.
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- Director of Business Development ( Ontario & Atlantic Canada ), TELUS Health
Saurabh is a diversified tri-sector health care leader with over twenty-five years of experience across the private, public and not-for-profit health care sectors. He is currently the Director of Business Development (Ontario and Atlantic Canada) for TELUS Health as well as the 2 nd Vice-President of The Empire Club of Canada. He has served in leadership roles in the medtech sector with Abbott Diabetes Care and Baxter Canada, in the pharmaceutical sector with GlaxoSmithKline and Eli Lilly Canada, and with the Ontario Government, having served two Ontario Ministers of Health and leading various health system transformation portfolios including digital health, health innovation, strategic procurement, pharmaceuticals, pharmacy and laboratory services modernization. Saurabh has also served in various governance role including Board Member at MEDEC, Board Member of the Canadian American Business Council, Co-Chair of the Digital Health Committee at Medtech Canada, Chair of the Ontario Committee at MEDEC and Member of the Ontario Medtech Working Group advising Ontario Health Innovation Council.
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- Vice - President, Business Development / Petal
After earning his M.B.A. from Queen's University, Stephen worked at Procter & Gamble and then at internet consulting firm, Cyberplex, where he worked with clients such as Sony, Chrysler, and Sprint to develop their internet strategies. He then co-founded and ran AllStarLineup for 12 years working with athletes and entertainers such as Magic Johnson, Pedro Martinez and Pamela Anderson, managing their promotional and business opportunities.
Stephen began work in the healthcare industry as Managing Director of the Mount Sinai Fertility Clinic in 2011, and in 2014 became the Director of Business Development at Mount Sinai Hospital. In 2016 he was named VP of Business Innovation & Development for the Sinai Health System, where he led all profit-generating businesses until 2021.
Stephen returned to the private sector in 2021 targeting two significant areas of interest and growth in global healthcare - he founded Paxana Med, a company focused on the use of psychedelics to treat Traumatic Brain Injuries, and joined Petal Solutions as VP, Business Development where he is responsible for the company's growth in Canada and the US.
Stephen likes to play baseball and the guitar, but he doesn't do either very well, and his wife and two kids maintain that he's in charge of things at home, but it has become clear that they say that just to make him feel good about himself.
Job Titles:
- Leader of Healthcare and Information Technology Services
- Strategic Advisor, Healthtech Consultants
As President and Founder of Healthtech Consultants, Susanne Flett has been a leader of healthcare and information technology services for over thirty years. She created Healthtech Consultants in 1983 out of a need to make a difference. Susanne assembled a dynamic group of consultants who deliver exceptional results, provide responsive client service, and offer innovative, practical solutions exclusively to the Canadian Healthcare sector. Under her leadership, Healthtech provides full project lifecycle services that promote the application of technology to improve healthcare delivery across Canada.
Susanne's expertise has led to the successful completion of hundreds of planning, integration, implementation, and clinical adoption engagements each year. Her demonstrated experience ensures that complex multi-stakeholder projects consistently reach desired outcomes. She has keen insight into how to combine business and patient care needs to guarantee project success. With this combination of strong business acumen and passion for innovation, Susanne is also the President and Founder of Healthtech Innovations, a sister company that invests in early stage healthcare technology companies. Healthtech Innovations serves as an angel investor for companies that are introducing innovative approaches for the use of technology in healthcare.
Susanne holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from McMaster University and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario. She serves on the Board of Directors for ITAC and ITAC Health, is Co-Chair for the Advocacy Committee for ITAC health, and serves on the Advisory Board for CanChild - a research and education centre focused on improving the lives of children and youth with disabilities and their families.
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- Partner / Deloitte
- Partner, Deloitte Canada
Zahra Jivan has over 18 years of consulting experience working at the intersection of business transformation, technology transformation and organization transformation. Zahra has focused the last 16 years in the health sector leading large scale digital strategy and transformation engagements. She has supported clients with digitally enabled transformations, stakeholder engagement, change management, human-centered design, process redesign, business case development, future state visioning, implementation planning, and procurement. Her experience spans the healthcare sector-at the hospital, provincial and federal level.